NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock 2130MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +368%

12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Mar 2012

Quadro Ada

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620MHz

Base Clock

-

2130MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000MHz

Memory Clock

1200MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2816

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

88

Tensor Cores

-

22

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12MB

L2 Cache

512KB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18,900 million

Transistors

2,800 million

159mm²

Die Size

212mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

175W

250W

Suggested PSU

450W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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